Category: Beginner Guitar Lessons

I was lucky when I first started playing bass and guitar, and I’ve been lucky quite a few times since. My first instrument was a Fender Jazz bass, courtesy of my mother. My second instrument was a Rickenbacker bass....

Tablature for guitar, by its nature, is pretty easy to understand. Six lines that represent the guitar strings and numbers placed on the lines to indicate which frets are used is all you need to understand about guitar tab...

Guitar tab didn’t start showing up regularly until I was in my twenties. Before that, learning songs was mostly a matter of listening to recordings and trying to play what you heard. This could take anywhere from hours to...

Guitar riffs are those killer musical motifs that most people recognize as soon as they hear them. A guitar riff is that beautiful musical figure that makes some us want to play the guitar. Most guitar players can remember...

Tablature is a system of musical notation developed many years ago for string players in general, not just guitar players. Referred to as TAB, tablature is now primarily associated with guitarists, and the Internet is full of websites devoted...

Guitar tab is the guitarists friend. It allows all of us to play our favorite songs. There’s always some guitar player somewhere tabbing out a song, so chances are good you’ll be able to find just about any song...

Guitar teachers often struggle with keeping students interested. A lot of beginning guitar players want to be able to play something right away, and it’s always a good idea to accommodate them. Teaching students to play something, even if...